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Python Modules and Functions

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ENG-209: Data science for engineers with Python

Ce cours propose une immersion progressive et complète dans le domaine de la Data Science à travers le langage Python. Il guide les étudiants depuis la manipulation de données brutes jusqu'à la modélisation et l'extraction de connaissances utiles à partir ...

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This lecture covers the organization of Python libraries by module, the explicit importation of items, and the renaming of modules. It also explains the declaration of modules, scoping, and the use of functions and lambdas. Additionally, it delves into nested declarations, accessing parent contexts, and the global keyword for variable assignment. The lecture further explores functions as parameters, the creation of functions that return functions, and the manipulation of functions. It concludes with a practical example of displaying the most frequent words in a list and the flexibility of Python in handling functions as values.

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Instructors (2)

Olivier Verscheure

Jean-Philippe Pellet

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Theoretical computer science

Programming language theory: High-level programming languages

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Transcendental function

In mathematics, a transcendental function is an analytic function that does not satisfy a polynomial equation, in contrast to an algebraic function. In other words, a transcendental function "transcends" algebra in that it cannot be expressed algebraically. Examples of transcendental functions include the exponential function, the logarithm, and the trigonometric functions. Formally, an analytic function f (z) of one real or complex variable z is transcendental if it is algebraically independent of that variable.

Nested function

In computer programming, a nested function (or nested procedure or subroutine) is a function which is defined within another function, the enclosing function. Due to simple recursive scope rules, a nested function is itself invisible outside of its immediately enclosing function, but can see (access) all local objects (data, functions, types, etc.) of its immediately enclosing function as well as of any function(s) which, in turn, encloses that function.

Scope (computer science)

In computer programming, the scope of a name binding (an association of a name to an entity, such as a variable) is the part of a program where the name binding is valid; that is, where the name can be used to refer to the entity. In other parts of the program, the name may refer to a different entity (it may have a different binding), or to nothing at all (it may be unbound). Scope helps prevent name collisions by allowing the same name to refer to different objects – as long as the names have separate scopes.

Projective module

In mathematics, particularly in algebra, the class of projective modules enlarges the class of free modules (that is, modules with basis vectors) over a ring, by keeping some of the main properties of free modules. Various equivalent characterizations of these modules appear below. Every free module is a projective module, but the converse fails to hold over some rings, such as Dedekind rings that are not principal ideal domains.

Module (mathematics)

In mathematics, a module is a generalization of the notion of vector space in which the field of scalars is replaced by a ring. The concept of module generalizes also the notion of abelian group, since the abelian groups are exactly the modules over the ring of integers. Like a vector space, a module is an additive abelian group, and scalar multiplication is distributive over the operation of addition between elements of the ring or module and is compatible with the ring multiplication.

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